Jim Clohessy studies on a fantastic small boat fishing journey out from Cork Harbour…
Saturday was a fantastic run out by any requirements. Whereas most different locations had been basking in superb sunshine Cork was largely gray with a low cloud bordering to fog at occasions.
Shark had been the primary goal of the mission. After all contemporary bait needed to be caught first. Nice to see that the mackerel have arrived within the harbour in numbers. There’s lots of very small fish however we did handle to look out some common sized.
The change to the harbour space is unimaginable. Birds working, fish breaking some dolphins and studies of tuna offshore. Outdoors the harbour was no totally different however the gloomy sky and poor visibility made recognizing exercise tough.
We set ourselves on our shark drift by deploying our common chum block and settled in fishing the underside whereas we waited. We didn’t have lengthy to attend. It was a fantastic initiation to the world of shark fishing for Paul– pure chaos ensues as we had a really fast double take.
Preventing two sharks on the one time is just not the very best factor when there are solely two of us on board. Worse once more Paul’s shark managed to half the mainline whereas together with the boat (extra on that later).
We had a gradual stream of sharks caught and it was nice to see a number of sharks swimming across the boat – Shark fishing correctly actually. No signal of something apart from blues.
It was all going alongside swimmingly till I had a shark together with the boat solely to see that it had two traces however just one hooked. The shark was the primary shark we had hooked of that session and the hook of my hint had caught the snap swivel of the hint that the shark had swam off with. Unbelievable!
I needed to convey this shark on board because it managed to tangle up rightly whereas together with the boat. Whereas I used to be engaged on getting the shark free and launched, I abruptly realised we had been robbed! Our chum bag had an enormous gap and the rest of the chum block was gone! It was nearly welcome after the hectic two hours we had put down.
We drifted for whiting at that stage. It was regular however not hectic fishing so I made a decision to take a look at a wreck. I had fished it lately sufficient however there wasn’t a lot ling motion so I made a decision to float the sides for large whiting. I had a tussle with a shark right here too. It may properly be a blue however I’d prefer to hope it was a small porgie.
We didn’t get to see although.
On the primary drift I had an honest whiting adopted by a small ling. The ling coughed up a small mackerel. I made a decision to place down a mackerel bait on a wrecking hint (Exhausting To Bait It ….. The Good Wreck Fishing Hint!). It was explosive. Non cease ling!
It was like “foolish season” had fired, you realize that point when predators appear to click on that the winter is coming they usually higher bulk up. We had a number of ling to mid-teens and our largest touched 20lb. Finest ling I’ve had in a couple of years. We had been working out of time and tide.
It was uneven sufficient for the spin again to base however we had been travelling throughout the swell so may keep a snug 20 knots, the large Suzuki buzzing away on the again. We spent an excellent hour filleting…
